{"podcast":{"title":"The Really Big Show with Jim Csek &Iain Burns","slug":"the-really-big-show-with-jim-csek-iain-burns-7118319","podcast_index_feed_id":7118319,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10fa926fc/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.kelownanow.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45477111/94003c6aaf3a64b1.jpg","author":"Jim Csek","episode_count":387,"summary":"The Really Big Show is a Canadian news hour done differently. We discuss the news of the day through a Canadian lens with analysis and commentary from Jim Csek & managing editor Iain Burns. We translate the rhetoric into reality with common sense on the news that affects Canada, BC and our region. We are live five days a week around 9 am PST. Recorded sessions available on Youtube, X and many podcast channels. https://thereallybigshow.ca","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T10:18:30.701498+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-really-big-show-with-jim-csek-iain-burns-7118319"},"episode":{"title":"Harsh reality as Canada faces hunger crisis","slug":"harsh-reality-as-canada-faces-hunger-crisis","published_at":"2026-06-01T20:40:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-really-big-show-with-jim-csek-iain-burns-7118319/harsh-reality-as-canada-faces-hunger-crisis","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-really-big-show-with-jim-csek-iain-burns-7118319","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ai-ev/episodes/Harsh-reality-as-Canada-faces-hunger-crisis-e3k6t92","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10fa926fc/podcast/play/120861410/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-1%2F425315534-44100-2-a5a7be00a299f.mp3","summary":"The day before Statistics Canada confirmed Canada had entered a technical recession, Mark Carney told New York business leaders Canada would have the second-fastest growth in the G7 this year. Carney has yet to comment on the recession data. Poilievre is calling for an emergency parliamentary debate. And Canada's food banks are asking Ottawa to modernize an Employment Insurance system built for a workforce that no longer exists. The government issued 126,000 temporary foreign worker permits last year for skilled trades while 127,000 skilled trades workers sat unemployed. The gap between what this government says and what is actually happening has never been more measurable. Today on The Really Big Show: ►Carney told New York business leaders Canada would have "the second-fastest growth in the G7 this year," one day before Statistics Canada confirmed Canada had entered a technical recession, with the economy shrinking in 3 of the 4 quarters since Carney became prime minister ►Poilievre called for an emergency parliamentary debate, saying "Mark Carney is now the only G7 leader to have plunged his economy into recession," as Carney has yet to comment on the recession data ►Food Banks Canada is calling on Ottawa to modernize Employment Insurance, saying the system has not been fully updated for decades and was built for a full-time employment era that no longer reflects Canadian working life, as food bank visits hit a record 4.1 million annually in Toronto alone with 50% of new users holding full-time jobs ►The Globe and Mail has acknowledged that 5 years after the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced 215 possible unmarked graves near a Kamloops residential school, "there has been no public confirmation of the discovery of any human remain…","meta_description":"The day before Statistics Canada confirmed Canada had entered a technical recession, Mark Carney told New York business leaders Canada would have the seco…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":10159,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-really-big-show-with-jim-csek-iain-burns-7118319/episodes/harsh-reality-as-canada-faces-hunger-crisis/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-really-big-show-with-jim-csek-iain-burns-7118319/harsh-reality-as-canada-faces-hunger-crisis.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}